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Climate Change: could it help develop 'adaptive expertise'?

journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-17, 04:34 authored by Bell, EJ, Horton, G, Blashki, G, Seidel, BM
Preparing health practitioners to respond to the rising burden of disease from climate change is emerging as a priority in health workforce policy and planning. However, the issue is hardly represented in the medical education research. The rapidly evolving wide range of direct and indirect consequences of climate change will require health professionals to have not only broad content knowledge but also flexibility and responsiveness to diverse regional problems, but they do creatively seek to better solve novel problems. This may be the result of an acquired approach to practice or a pathway that can be fostered by learning environments. It is also know that building adaptive expertise in medical education involves putting students on a learning pathway that requires them to have, first, the motivation to innovatively problem-solve and, second, exposure to diverse content material, meaningfully presented. Including curriculum content on the health effects of climate change could help meet these two conditions for some students at least. A working definition and illustrative competencies for adaptive expertise for climate change, as well as examples of teaching and assessment approaches extrapolated from rural curricula, are provided.

History

Publication title

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volume

2010

Issue

In press on-line

Pagination

EJ

ISSN

1382-4996

Department/School

School of Health Sciences

Publisher

Springer

Place of publication

Netherlands

Rights statement

Copyright 2010 Springer Science + Business Media

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Public health (excl. specific population health) not elsewhere classified